Cycling Nutrition Archives

What Do Pros Eat During Paris-Nice?

March 9, 2020 at 11:34 am5 min reading

Paris-Nice, sometimes also called the Mini Tour de France, is an iconic stage race that takes riders across central France. The thing is, it’s not really all that “mini”, it’s actually a very gruelling race that puts even the very elite to test. Let’s take…

Periodized Nutrition in Cycling – Why You Should Do It Too

February 4, 2020 at 11:45 am5 min reading

Health & Training

You know that exercising your leg muscles improves your cycling performance. What a lot of cyclists forget though is that nutrition can also improve or hinder the training adaptations you work so hard for. Periodized nutrition can help you maximize training adaptations without sacrificing any…

Half of Elite Cyclists Have Tooth Decay Despite Brushing Twice Daily

November 14, 2019 at 1:05 pm5 min reading

Health & Training

New research shows that elite athletes across a variety of sports very commonly suffer from poor oral health. You might think that it’s because they are too busy training and don’t brush their teeth properly. The thing is, the same research also shows that these…

Potatoes Are Just as Effective as Energy Gels for Endurance Cycling

November 8, 2019 at 9:17 am5 min reading

Health & Training

Have you ever heard of pallet fatigue? A lot of endurance cyclists are intimately familiar with that feeling of downing the seventh gel of the day and hating every second of it. Luckily, scientists are here to help. Researchers from the University of Illinois set…

7 Signs You Are Under-Fuelling as a Cyclist

October 2, 2019 at 1:21 pm5 min reading

Health & Training

Under-fuelling, the failure to meet the energy demands of the body, can have a significant impact on performance and even health. The problem is that cyclists often eat less than they should without realizing it. Let’s look at common reasons why this happens and important…